Whatta Weekend!!

I have been complaining to my hubby that we need to make the most out of this summer. It is the last few months before we go from a family of 3 to a family of 4 and I know juggling Natey and an infant is going to be tough for me at first. I wanted Nate to get as much fun time in as possible before the big change happens.

We were going to do a weekend trip somewhere, but opted for 2 day trips in and around our area. Saturday we got up bright and early (as always) and loaded everyone in the car for a trip to neighboring CT to visit The Dinosaur Place. I thought it was called Dinosaur Land and after I told Nate that's was it's name, there was no going back! So off to Dinosaur Land-in (Nate's version) we went. This park was so neat! They have 25 life size dinosaurs along a one mile walking trail. There is a volcano that "erupts" every hour and a huge playground and splashpad too!

Natey was really excited about this one's eye for some reason. Maybe because a lot of the other dinos were so huge, he was just geeking on the fact he could look this one in the eye!

After we finished doing the walking trail, we ate lunch at the picnic tables and got Natey changed for the splashpad adventure. It was really big and we have never taken him to one before, so I was hoping he would like it.
He was really hesitant at first. I guess he was trying to gauge just why all of this water was squirting from the ground or coming from over head, but he warmed up after a few minutes.

All was well, until he got sprayed in the face a couple of times. He ran back to me for some reinforcement, but then was back in the game! I kept telling him it was not a giant drinking fountain and eventually he listened. He had so much fun running around and playing with all of the different water features. We will definitely have to go to another one in our area soon.

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Since we were in CT already, and because I had missed the outing when my work group went, we ventured to Buttonwood Farm for some homemade ice cream and a hayride through the sunflower fields. The farm plants 12 acres of sunflowers and then does a big charity event, called "Sunflowers for Wishes", where all of the proceeds go to the local Make A Wish Foundation. The ice cream was so good. We even tried the sunflower ice cream. It sounds weird, but was just the right mix of salty and sweet...a pregnant girl's dream!

The hay ride took us through the farm. We got to see pigs, chickens, feed the cows some hay and the ride ended with a trek through the sunflower field. It was so pretty to see a huge mass of them all together. They are so tall. I didn't even realize just how high they were!

Of course my camera battery died as we were entering the field. I managed to get 2 measly pictures of the sunflowers, but oh well! It was such a fun day and after all of that excitement, we headed home.

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Sunday turned into beach day. It was slightly overcast and not super hot, which to me is prefect beach weather. I don't need to sit and bake in the heat of the sun all day. It was still warm out and the ocean was actually warm too. This was my first time at the beach all summer so we lived it up. We went with our friends and their 3 kids. The guys dug a huge hole and I walked back and forth from the ocean with buckets of water to try to fill it. The kids played in it very happily for most of the time we were there. (There was more water at one point!)

We decided to take the kids over to the rocky area and look for crabs and starfish.Natey found a few snails and we caught 3 crabs. We only had one casualty as a crab lost a leg, but we freed them before the little ones could inflict too much damage!!

We ended the weekend with a trip to our local outlet mall (and dinner at Red Robin) to take advantage of my 30% off coupon from Gap. Natey now has his entire 3T summer wardrobe. Let's hope he doesn't have some crazy growth spurt beetween now and then!!It was an exhausting weekend, but we all had so much fun. What did you do this weekend??